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Article Dans Une Revue PNAS Nexus Année : 2024

High economic inequality is linked to greater moralization

Kelly Kirkland
Paul a M van Lange
Drew Gorenz
Khandis Blake
Catherine E Amiot
Liisi Ausmees
Peter Baguma
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Oumar Barry
Maja Becker
Michal Bilewicz
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Watcharaporn Boonyasiriwat
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Robert W Booth
Thomas Castelain
Giulio Costantini
Girts Dimdins
Agustín Espinosa
Gillian Finchilescu
Ronald Fischer
Malte Friese
Ángel Gómez
Roberto González
Nobuhiko Goto
Peter Halama
Camilo Hurtado-Parrado
Ruby D Ilustrisimo
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Gabriela M Jiga-Boy
Peter Kuppens
Steve Loughnan
Khairul A Mastor
Neil Mclatchie
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Lindsay M Novak
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Blessing N Onyekachi
Muhammad Rizwan
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Mark Schaller
Eleonora Serafimovska
Eunkook M Suh
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William B Swann
Eddie M W Tong
Ana Torres
Rhiannon N Turner
Christin-Melanie Vauclair
Alexander Vinogradov
Zhechen Wang
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Victoria Wai Lan Yeung
Brock Bastian

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Throughout the 21st century, economic inequality is predicted to increase as we face new challenges, from changes in the technological landscape to the growing climate crisis. It is crucial we understand how these changes in inequality may affect how people think and behave. We propose that economic inequality threatens the social fabric of society, in turn increasing moralization—that is, the greater tendency to employ or emphasize morality in everyday life—as an attempt to restore order and control. Using longitudinal data from X, formerly known as Twitter, our first study demonstrates that high economic inequality is associated with greater use of moral language online (e.g. the use of words such as “disgust”, “hurt”, and “respect’). Study 2 then examined data from 41 regions around the world, generally showing that higher inequality has a small association with harsher moral judgments of people's everyday actions. Together these findings demonstrate that economic inequality is linked to the tendency to see the world through a moral lens.
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hal-04670509 , version 1 (12-08-2024)

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Kelly Kirkland, Paul a M van Lange, Drew Gorenz, Khandis Blake, Catherine E Amiot, et al.. High economic inequality is linked to greater moralization. PNAS Nexus, 2024, 3 (7), pgae221. ⟨10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae221⟩. ⟨hal-04670509⟩
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